Flexibility

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Instructor: Thiago Bitencourt Lesson Plan Unit: Felibility Lesson # 1 Grade 6-8 Equipment: Cones, CD player Major movement concept or skills: Dynamic stretching and static stretching Safety considerations: All students must maintain control of their bodies at all times. Be aware of others when traveling throughout the space. Stay away from the bleachers.

Intro Activity Objective: Students will be able to increase their heart rates and warm up their muscles by traveling around the gym while listening to music.
 * Initiation:** Good morning students. Today we will be learning about flexibility and different types of stretches, dynamic and static stretching. Who knows what flexibility is? Why is it important to be flexible? Why is it important to stretch? Can anyone tell me some ways in which we can improve our flexibility? Because our muscles are more flexible when they are warm we will begin our class with a simple warm-up just to get our heart rates up and warm up our muscles.

1) Organization: The students will perform the locomotor movements while traveling on the outside of the basketball lines. The teacher will call out the different locomotor movements for the students to perform. Each student may choose their own pace. If the teacher sees that the students is not trying hard enough he/she may tell the student to pick up the pace. 2) Teaching Cues: Make sure to breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth. Keep your head up and your eyes looking out for the other students. 3) Questions to ask: Are you moving at a pace that is warming you up? Are you challenging yourself? -Students who are having a difficulty performing the locomotor movements may perform a movement that they are able of performing at a pace in which will warm up their bodies. Students who are having an easier time will be challenged to increase their pace and perform locomotor movements that are for challenging. Objective: Students will be able to perform a variety of dynamic stretches with correct form. Movement Experience: The students will line up side by side on the side line of the basketball court. The students will travel to the opposite sideline and back performing dynamic stretches that include: high knees, Butt kicks, side steps and the grape vine. 1) Organization: the whole class will form one line standing side by side on the sideline of the basket ball courts. If the whole class does not fit in one line, make two lines. 2) Teaching Cues: Breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth. Perform the stretch to the best of your ability. 3) Questions to ask: Are you feeling the stretch? Are you working at a pace that is rigorous enough for you? Are you performing the stretch correctly? - Students having difficulty performing the stretches may perform them at a less intense pace. Students not performing the stretches with ease will be challenged to perform at a more rigorous pace.
 * Movement experiences:** Students will travel around the gym performing various locomotor movements non-stop for 5 minutes. The students will begin moving when the music begins to play and when the music stops the students will also stop.
 * Differentiated instructions:**
 * Lesson Focus**
 * Differentiated instructions:**

Objective: Students will be able to perform various static stretches with correct form while working with a partner. Movement Experiences: The students will be divided into pairs. Each student will assist their partner in performing stretches for the following muscles: Hamstring, Quadriceps, Gluts and abductors. 1) Organization: Students are divided into pairs. The student will assist their partner and will be assisted by their partner to perform static stretches correctly. The students will hold each stretch for 15 seconds. 2) Teaching cues: Remember to breathe very deeply when stretching, in through your nose and out through your mouth. Communicate well with your partner when stretching to not go into the danger zone of the stretch. 3) Questions to ask: Are you breathing deep when stretching? Are you communicating with your partner to stay away from the danger zone? - Students who are less flexible will only be expected to stretch as far as they are capable. Students who are more flexible than others will be challenged to stretch further.
 * Culminating activity**
 * Differentiated instructions:**

Great jog today class!!1 I saw a lot of great work today. In our last activity I noticed everyone was communicating very well with their partners. Do you feel like your muscles are looser and more relaxed now that you have warmed them up and stretched them? Who can tell me why it’s important to stretch? And what are some ways to increase our flexibility? I am really glad to have all of you as my students. If you remember these stretching techniques you will be very successful in your physical activities. As homework I want all of you to research one interesting fact about why stretching is important and what it can prevent when engaging in physical activities. Post your answers in the class blog followed by your name.**__(__ __Technology standard #3)__** However the answer you post cannot be similar to anyone else’s in the class. This should be no problem because there are hundreds of different interesting facts about stretching.**__(Technology standard #1)__** Have a great day everyone and remember to stretch..
 * Closure:**

Refer to the following links for information about flexibility and stretching. [|Stretch exercises] [|Other stretch exercises]

__**Moodle.**__ Through out this semester you will keep track of how much your flexibility improves. Choose from one of the stretches we learned in class and input your improvement twice a week into our class moodle. (ex. touch toes with finger tips, touch toes with knuckles, touch toes with palms.) Click in the following link to go into our class moodle. [|Classmoodle]

[|Class Blog!!!]

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